Sound of Cinema - What's The Big Idea?

What's The Big Idea?

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Matthew Sweet look at music for films with an overt or subliminal philosophical subtext, in the week of the release of "The Young Karl Marx" which features a new score by Alexei Aigui.

Films and scores included in the programme are "Socrates"; "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure"; "Il Conformista"; "Hollow Man"; "Total Recall"; "Rashomon"; "I Heart Huckabees"; "Interstellar"; "The Mission"; "La Chinoise"; "Week-End" and "Synecdoche New York".

The Classic Score of the Week is Mikis Theodorakis's music for "Z".

Published on Saturday, 5th May 2018.

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